Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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